Bible Dictionary: First Fruits: Figurative

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Romans 8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
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Romans 11:16
For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
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1 Corinthians 15:20,23
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.
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James 1:18
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
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Whether There was any Reasonable Cause for the Ceremonial ...
... as being the firstlings of clean fruits, were offered ... The figurative reason was that
this foreshadowed the fact ... three states of the Law (the first lasting from ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether there was any reasonable.htm

On Baptism.
... Bridegroom afterwards separates those who have come in to the figurative marriage. ...
went out unto him all Jerusalem [598] , to enjoy the first-fruits of baptisms ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture iii on baptism.htm

Rom. xvi. 5
... and some by addressing them by name, and some by calling them first-fruits, and
some ... If so meant it might be figurative, but it most likely refers either to an ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxxi rom xvi 5.htm

Joy and Faith, the Fruits of Christ's Departure
... JOY AND FAITH, THE FRUITS OF CHRIST'S DEPARTURE. ... First of all, there comes a renewed
utterance of that great ... of what is real and what is figurative in Christ's ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/joy and faith the fruits.htm

Of those Things which a Man of God Spake by the Spirit to Eli the ...
... thy sons above me, to bless the first-fruits of every ... immediate father, but that
of Aaron, who first was appointed ... nature not in proper but in figurative words ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 5 of those things which.htm

On the Baptism of Christ.
... For Jordan alone of rivers, receiving in itself the first-fruits of sanctification ...
the clean and fair apparel; teaching us by the figurative illustration that ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/on the baptism of christ.htm

After Christ: with Christ
... He recognised and hailed in them the first-fruits of the ... is the great instance, He
illustrates, first, by an ... except in a very secondary and figurative fashion. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/after christ with christ.htm

It is a Wretched Slavery which Takes the Figurative Expressions of ...
... In the first place, we must beware of taking a ... For he who follows the letter takes
figurative words as if ... of victims from the flock, and of the fruits of the ...
/.../augustine/on christian doctrine in four books /chapter 5 it is a wretched.htm

The Figurative Language of Scripture.
... him read the fifteenth chapter of the first epistle to ... turned from its literal
signification to a figurative sense. ... Ye shall know them by their fruits: do men ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxv the figurative language.htm

The First Epistle General of Peter
... At first sight it seems to mean those Christians ... Dispersion" must be taken in a
figurative sense, meaning ... was foretold by the prophets: the fruits of salvation ...
/.../pullan/the books of the new testament/chapter xxi the first epistle.htm